{"nrhp_refnum":"98001162","name":"King and Queen Courthouse Green Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Jct. of Allen Circle and Courthouse Landing Rd., NW of Shacklefords","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shacklefords","county":"King and Queen County","state":"VA","lat":37.67015993000004,"lon":-76.87891007732156,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-09-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Architecture","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural county courthouse district of about 11.5 acres in King and Queen County, Virginia, on a site used for the county courthouse since 1691. It includes a brick courthouse compound and nearby tavern, store, school and residence buildings.","why_significant":"The district is argued to be significant for Politics/Government, Architecture and Social History. It shows the layout and uses of a rural courthouse community that has remained largely intact and has hosted court functions for over 300 years despite fires, including the 1864 burning by Union forces, and attempts to move the county seat.","narrative":"King and Queen Courthouse Green is an 11.5-acre cluster of buildings in rural King and Queen County, Virginia, where the county courthouse has stood since the county was created in 1691. A small brick compound holds the courthouse, old clerk's office and jail, joined by a granite Confederate monument from 1912 and a 1930s brick wall built as a WPA project. Nearby are a former tavern and hotel, a store building, a two-room school from about 1909 and a residence on the site of an earlier tavern. Union forces burned the courthouse, clerk's office and jail in 1864, and they were rebuilt in 1866; the tavern was the only building spared. Residents repeatedly petitioned to move or redraw the county but kept the seat in place. The district was listed for its governmental role, its architecture and its social history. It retains a high degree of integrity, and a modern courthouse complex built in 1997 lies adjacent.","period_of_significance":"c. 1750-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Late Victorian; Late 19th and early 20th Century American Movements","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Courthouse functions continue in the district; the old clerk's office is used as a county archive and small museum, and a new courthouse (1997) sits adjacent. A later note says the old clerk's office building is currently vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.275284-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/7/6814/41681407/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/98001162.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001162/258de42f94-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001162/258de42f94-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"JERRYE &amp; ROY KLOTZ MD","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KING_AND_QUEEN_COURTHOUSE_GREEN_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">JERRYE &amp;amp; ROY KLOTZ MD</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KING_AND_QUEEN_COURTHOUSE_GREEN_HISTORIC_DISTRICT.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41681407","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_and_Queen_Courthouse_Green_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14712671"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/king-and-queen-county/king-and-queen-courthouse-green-historic-district-98001162/"}